On more than one occasion, Mat has come home to a less-than-stellar meal after working a long day at the shop...poor guy! With Sophie around, over the past five (and a bit) months, meal preparation has become a practice in quick and convenient. (And, no, I will not feed my family TV dinners on a regular basis...)
When Sophie needs something, such as a diaper change, she needs it N-O-W. So, when preparing meals, I've often become sidetracked with helping Sophie and all-too-frequently burn, boil over or overcook whatever is being prepared. Whoops!! In fact, just last week I completely destroyed what were to be some seriously delicious mexican sausages. I thought putting the grill on low would gently cook the sausages while I dealt with the little one...wrong!
My most admirable kitchen nightmare materialized when I tried to make strawberry jam. Yeah...for those of you that have made jam, you can only guess what happened. I left the strawberry, pectin and sugar mixture in the pot on medium, went around the corner to help Sophie, and come back to a boiled-over mess on the stovetop. WOW...go me!! That stuff boils over fast! Thankfully, we have a glass top, so it's not like the stovetop was completely ruined with hard, crusty, sugary, strawberry goop. Mathieu came home to the crusty mess and proceeded to scrape off the hardened goop from the glass with a razor. Ingenious idea...what a GOOD man!! Told ya he was handy, didn't I! In the end, all was not lost, we still got some yummy jars of strawberry jam...it's just strawberry jam with a bit of a story behind it!
And whoever said eating a very well done steak or extra mushy pasta would hurt ya?! :)
